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Overview

Requester(s): mydefichain
Amount requested in DFI: 9,500
Receiving address: dFRtR9GJT9UF41UgjHNusxeZpKqy8nRun3
Reddit discussion thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/defiblockchain/comments/ykgqqg/cfp_mydefichain_ocean_q42022_9500_dfi_and_q12023/
Proposal fee (95 DFI) txid: ee7bd50811d59926d5d358efecc5290b57f66af59597d7557ff2e1d3c7411e13

Describe the purpose

As described in DeFiCh/dfips#187, we operate an independent, loadbalanced OCEAN in several data centers at different providers, distributed in Europe.
Our solution primarily serves as a fallback in case the official Ocean Infrastructure at AWS is not available.

The servers can be accessed via a unique URL (https://ocean.mydefichain.com/), behind that a load balancer takes over the distribution of the requests.

We also operate our own OCEAN infrastructure for the testnet: https://testnet-ocean.mydefichain.com:8443

How will the fund be spent?

The entire amount will be spent on infrastructure costs for Q4 2022 (~$2000 per month with a DFI-price of 0.63$).

How does this CFP benefit the DeFiChain community?

In the last 4 months we could see from the statistics that our infrastructure is used and was ready as a fallback, when at the beginning of September the official infrastructure had a problem and was not available. The accesses have increased x4 in this time and has shown us that the fallback works so that we want to continue to operate our Ocean.

Another example of this was a few days ago, when the official OCEAN URL was classified as malicious by various DNS servers due to a false positive and as a result the LightWallet could no longer be used with the official URL. (https://twitter.com/uzyn/status/1585804113593659392)
Our infrastructure was available as a fallback and we noticed a doubling of requests to mydefichain Ocean in the statistics.

Overview

1. Requester(s): Bernd Mack @bernd-mack and Andreas Lentz @Stonygan with mydefichain
2. Amount requested in DFI: 1893
3. Receiving address: dFRtR9GJT9UF41UgjHNusxeZpKqy8nRun3
4. Reddit discussion thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/defiblockchain/comments/pnmp6r/cfp_defichain_networkmap_1893_dfi/
5. Proposal fee (10 DFI) txid: xxx

Describe the purpose

To get an overview of the size of the DeFiChain network, the deployed versions and the worldwide distribution of fullnodes, masternodes and wallets, we have been analyzing the network continuously over the last weeks and collecting data. Not only out of pure curiosity, but also for the planning of our further server locations at mydefichain, we have processed the data and want to make it available to the community as a livemap and the collected data as an API for free use.
This data is equally incredibly valuable for future marketing, because you can directly see where DeFiChain still has opportunities for growth.

How will the fund be spent?

Most of the funds will be used for incurred server costs for the network crawlers, and a small portion will be used for labor hours incurred in recent weeks.

How does this CFP benefit the DeFiChain community?

The community is able to use it to track the current status of the DeFiChain network.

• Where are most wallets active, where are the fullnodes and masternodes?
• Which versions are used most often, how fast are updates distributed in the network?
• Which country operates the most nodes?

The public API is free for the community and can be used in other projects for statistical analysis.

Examples:

Livemap with all Nodes with Open Ports:
https://livemap.mydefichain.com/

Livemap over all Fullnodes (Wallet APP and AIN):
https://livemap.mydefichain.com/full/
Attention: There are over 5000 nodes in the database, the structure and navigation can be difficult.

API for external use (BETA-Version):
Versions:
https://api.mydeficha.in/v1/definodes/versions/
All Nodes:
https://api.mydeficha.in/v1/definodes/locations/
Active Nodes:
https://api.mydeficha.in/v1/definodes/locations/?active=true
Inactive or closed Port 8555 (APP-Versions):
https://api.mydeficha.in/v1/definodes/locations/?active=false
Countries:
https://api.mydeficha.in/v1/definodes/countries/

Please note: No IP addresses are published, only the coordinates of the nodes. Also, for privacy reasons, the coordinates have been extended with random numbers, so there may be deviations up to a radius of about 2000m.

Hello Community,

to take decentralization further, we are providing an independent Ocean API that can be used by anyone in the Light Wallet or by other community projects.
The infrastructure is intended to be a fallback for the official Ocean API and can be used by DeFiChain users in case of failure.

At the moment we operate Servers in different Providers and Datacenters in Europe: Paris (France), Vienna (Austria), Frankfurt, Berlin, Duesseldorf and Nuernberg (Germany)
The servers can be accessed via a unique URL (https://ocean.mydefichain.com), behind that a load balancer takes over the distribution of the requests.
The Load Balancer operate as a Master and Backup Load Balancer in active/passive mode with a Highly Available IP address (a special highly available address, which is routed to the master Load Balancer instance) Should the master instances experience a failure, this address is automatically rerouted to the backup one.
Master and backup are running on different hardware clusters to ensure that they don't share physical resources and minimize the risk of a simultaneous failure.

We believe that an independent provider from the official Ocean infrastructure is not only important for decentralization, but should and can serve as a fallback especially in case of failure of the official endpoint. Our statistics have shown over the last weeks that our infrastructure is often used as an alternative in case of problems.

How much in the Lightwallet used our Ocean, even if there was no error in the Ocean infrastructure, our statistics show at the beginning of January, when the Lightwallet contained an error and the setting for custom endpoints was buggy and did not work (Platzhalter Issue LW), our number of hits dropped significantly as a result and only increased again when this problem was fixed with a new version for iOS and Android at the beginning of february.

To always see the current status of our Ocean infrastructure, we have created a fork of defiscan.live, which has our own Ocean infrastructure for the Mainnet and Testnet permanently stored as a custom service provider.

So if defiscan.live fails due to problems, our explorer can be used as an alternative:

https://explorer.mydefichain.com/

Due to the increased requirements, primarily in disk storage, and the increased prices of all providers since the beginning of the year, the monthly cost is 2500$ for the cloud infrastructure, which we herewith request from the Masternodes for 2023 in 6 cycles. The entire amount of each cycle ( ~6 weeks) is 6.500 DFI and will be spent on infrastructure costs ( ~$2500 per month with a DFI-price of 0.58$).

Overview

Requester(s): mydefichain
Amount requested in DFI: 9,500
Receiving address: dFRtR9GJT9UF41UgjHNusxeZpKqy8nRun3
Reddit discussion thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/defiblockchain/comments/ykgqqg/cfp_mydefichain_ocean_q42022_9500_dfi_and_q12023/
Proposal fee (95 DFI) txid: aec158a3070554d479c72873427a71e44ba2a4f8bd89853aea27c5e712878078

Describe the purpose

As described in DeFiCh/dfips#187, we operate an independent, loadbalanced OCEAN in several data centers at different providers, distributed in Europe.
Our solution primarily serves as a fallback in case the official Ocean Infrastructure at AWS is not available.

The servers can be accessed via a unique URL (https://ocean.mydefichain.com/), behind that a load balancer takes over the distribution of the requests.

We also operate our own OCEAN infrastructure for the testnet: https://testnet-ocean.mydefichain.com:8443

How will the fund be spent?

Since we don't want to get ahead of ourselves with the costs, we are requesting the Q1/2023 costs in this round as well, since it looks like there will not be another Voting Round this year in terms of timing.
The entire amount will be spent on infrastructure costs for Q1 2023 (~$2000 per month with a DFI-price of 0.63$).

How does this CFP benefit the DeFiChain community?

In the last 4 months we could see from the statistics that our infrastructure is used and was ready as a fallback, when at the beginning of September the official infrastructure had a problem and was not available. The accesses have increased x4 in this time and has shown us that the fallback works so that we want to continue to operate our Ocean.

Another example of this was a few days ago, when the official OCEAN URL was classified as malicious by various DNS servers due to a false positive and as a result the LightWallet could no longer be used with the official URL. (https://twitter.com/uzyn/status/1585804113593659392)
Our infrastructure was available as a fallback and we noticed a doubling of requests to mydefichain Ocean in the statistics.

Hello Community,

to take decentralization further, we are providing an independent Ocean API that can be used by anyone in the Light Wallet or by other community projects. The infrastructure is intended to be a fallback for the official Ocean API and can be used by DeFiChain users in case of failure.

You can see how you can change the Custuom provider in the Light Wallet here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-1hTcK1mHmA

At the moment we operate Servers in different Providers and Datacenters in Europe: Paris (France), Vienna (Austria), Frankfurt, Berlin, Duesseldorf and Nuernberg (Germany)The servers can be accessed via a unique URL (https://ocean.mydefichain.com), behind that a load balancer takes over the distribution of the requests. (https://testnet-ocean.mydefichain.com:8443 for Testnet)The Load Balancer operate as a Master and Backup Load Balancer in active/passive mode with a Highly Available IP address (a special highly available address, which is routed to the master Load Balancer instance) Should the master instances experience a failure, this address is automatically rerouted to the backup one.Master and backup are running on different hardware clusters to ensure that they don't share physical resources and minimize the risk of a simultaneous failure.

We believe that an independent provider from the official Ocean infrastructure is not only important for decentralization, but should and can serve as a fallback especially in case of failure of the official endpoint. Our statistics have shown over the last weeks that our infrastructure is often used as an alternative in case of problems.

To always see the current status of our Ocean infrastructure, we have created a fork of defiscan.live, which has our own Ocean infrastructure for the Mainnet, Testnet and changi permanently stored as a custom service provider.

So if defiscan.live fails due to problems, our explorer can be used as an alternative:

https://explorer.mydefichain.com/

Due to the increased requirements, primarily in disk storage (growth is ~15 GB per month) the monthly cost is 2500$ for the cloud infrastructure, which we herewith request from the Masternodes for the first half of the year 2024. The entire amount will be spent on infrastructure costs ( ~$2500 per month).

At a price of $0.25 per DFI, this is 10,000 DFI per month and 60,000 DFI for the first half of 2024.

Please note: We have decided to request the total amount for the 1st half of 2024 this time instead of requesting each cycle again.

Overview

1. Requester(s): Andreas Lentz @Stonygan and Bernd Mack @bernd-mack with mydefichain
2. Amount requested in DFI: 35 000
3. Receiving address: dFRtR9GJT9UF41UgjHNusxeZpKqy8nRun3
4. Reddit discussion thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/defiblockchain/comments/qhvkcr/cfp_boost_the_defichain_testnet_infrastructure/
5. Proposal fee (10 DFI) txid: 766aca1a6db160e80bc498eb574140cfdf509e2480f11428328f5db77b659d97

Describe the purpose

The Fort Canning Hardfork is coming soon and at mydefichain we are already busy testing on the Testnet. Some have also tried to test there, but the Testnet is currently not stable, available and decentralized enough and also very little equipped with Masternodes and Fullnodes. So you sometimes don't get the right chain (there are always rollbacks during testing) or there are chain splits because the nodes are not sufficiently connected between each other.

As we already run some Masternodes for the Mainnet and therefore have the technical Knowhow, we would like to propose a CFP in which we set up a number of 10 to 20 servers worldwide, keep them always up to date with the official Testnetbinarys and run some Testnet Fullnode and in some cases several Masternodes on the servers. In addition, each node is equipped with Testnet DFI and a program that can execute automated transactions. This makes it possible to place a base load of transactions on the blockchain and thus more realistically replicate the Mainnet.

The Testnet currently does not have the importance and stability that we believe it must have in the future. As more use cases are implemented on the DeFiChain, the need to be able to test them extensively in a testenvironment will grow.

How will the fund be spent?

Setup of the server infrastructure with at least 10 servers, depending on the load.
Automated load generation to replicate the mainnet.
DNS seed for correct connection of the wallets (same as in the Mainnet).
Provision of Testnet-Snapshots.
By running the mydefichain Masternodeservice, we are aware of the overhead of such an infrastructure, so a large part of the funds is allocated to the daily maintenance, upkeep and monitoring the Testnet blockchain.

How does this CFP benefit the DeFiChain community?

A stable test environment for the Defichain blockchain for all developers, users and Exchanges. Create Masternodes, use loans and play with arbitrage options without losing your real funds.
We want to provide one place for all community members to get Testnet DFI or get information about the current state of the blockchain.

Bernd & Andy

https://mydeficha.in/en/
https://t.me/mydefichain

Overview

Requester(s): mydefichain
Amount requested in DFI: 28,500
Receiving address: dFRtR9GJT9UF41UgjHNusxeZpKqy8nRun3
Reddit discussion thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/defiblockchain/comments/ydz2tp/cfp_support_for_mydefichain_masternode_service/
Proposal fee (285 DFI) txid: 8364a042cc0fffd8ae1cdd44f87a4dbbae6ee48afd8dc7991216efbbde8fc022

Describe the purpose

20 months ago, we started our masternode service with mydefichain and for the start of our project, to give all community members an easy way to run their own masternode without giving the funds out of their hands, we received the Go of the masternode owners to fund this from the Community Fund.
Now we have reached a point where our calculation at that time is at a crossroads. The thought was to offer the service easily over the next 5 years as long as the DFI price was $1 or higher. This price has now been undercut for 3 months and brings us to a point where not all costs can be covered by the funding at that time. Add to that the announcements by almost all of our providers that they will be raising prices on November 1, 2022 due to the increasing cost of electricity.

For this reason, we are requesting interim funding for the 3rd and 4th quarter of 2022, as well as the 1st quarter of 2023, and hope that the price will rise again by then, so that all costs can be covered again and no further support from the Community Fund is needed.

How will the fund be spent?

We cover the current gap between the income generated by our master nodes and the monthly costs of the server infrastructure.
Currently we run 362 operators (1084 Subnodes) in parallel operation (1 operator runs on at least 2 servers), worldwide distributed to different service providers and locations on currently 34 servers in total (https://api.mydefichain.com/v1/statistics/). In addition, there are further servers for tasks such as backup, monitoring, API, faucet, snapshot service and licensing costs for any software.
A reduction of the servers is not possible in the short term without major effort due to annual contracts, so that no costs could be saved.

How does this CFP benefit the DeFiChain community?

We can continue to offer our services without any losses and do not have to restructure the infrastructure in the short term. Especially with regard to the DMC, we want to upgrade our servers even further and not make any savings that could lead to performance problems later on.
Besides the masternodeservice mydefichain offers the following projects, which were also financed by the fund:

• Snapshotservice Main- and Testnet
• Faucet for Main- and Testnet
• Own API which is used by many community projects
• Masternode statistics and evaluations

In the following analyses it can be seen that the effort we put in also results in a higher APR than the average. Thus, all masternodes hosted with us benefit.

Overview

1. Requester(s): Bernd Mack @bernd-mack and Andreas Lentz @Stonygan with mydefichain
2. Amount requested in DFI: 20.000
3. Receiving address: dFRtR9GJT9UF41UgjHNusxeZpKqy8nRun3
4. Reddit discussion thread: https://www.reddit.com/r/defiblockchain/comments/qidd5g/cfp_establish_a_platform_for_virtual_community/
5. Proposal fee (10 DFI) txid: 49c041606415258673fe1874282b637b04104b37b1c77e8e70653f1bc612f0fb

Describe the purpose

in the past there were regular community meetups on the Remo platform, where new projects were presented and the common exchange took place at the popular "tables" in Remo within the community. However, since the Remo license previously sponsored by I-Unlimited is unfortunately no longer available to us, we now have to decide whether to get our own license or to stop holding the meetups.

Our idea would be to get a license through the community fund. The main focus of the meetings should then be, in addition to the regular Community Meetups for networking, also current topics such as a CFP Special, where applicants can present themselves and receive direct feedback from the community.

How will the fund be spent?

2000 DFI will be spent for the remo license (annual payment).
Approximately 1070 DFI are planned monthly for the work time that will be taken up by organizing and hosting the Meetups for the next 12 months.

To give you a small overview of the costs, please refer to https://remo.co/pricing. We would consider a 1-year license „Essentials“.

How does this CFP benefit the DeFiChain community?

Build and establish a platform for virtual meetups from and for the Community to do networking and present community projects. Create things and spread the word.
If the presenting participants agree, the presentation on stage will also be recorded in order to provide even more video material on the DeFiChain YouTube channel.

Bernd & Andy

https://mydeficha.in/en/
https://t.me/mydefichain

Lets make DeFiChain decentralized!

mydeficha.in